Adjustable device for hanging picture-frames



(N0 Modl.)

H. STUEBNER.

ADJUSTABLE DEVICE FOR HANGING PICTURE FRAMES.

No. 368,251. Patented Aug. 16, 1887.

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HENRY STUEBNER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ADJUSTABLE DEVICE FOR HANGING PICTURE-FRAMES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,251, dated August16, 1887.

Application filed December ll, 1836. Serial No. 221,244. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HEIIRY STUEBNER, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, State ofPennsylvania, have invented anew and useful Improvement in AdjustableDevices for Hanging Picture Frames, of which the following is aspecification.

This improvement is more particularly related to the class ofpicture-hangers in which the usual cord is dispensed with.

The object of the improvement is to furnish to picture-hangers and thepublic generally a device by which the cord is supplanted, with its riskof wear upon the nail and of being moth-eaten, also the riskattendantupon handling heavy and valuable paintings when the point ofsuspension is upon nails or hooks near the ceiling.

By the use of my improvement pictures of any size may be safely hung andbe subsequently adjusted, with the lower edge of the frames parallelwith the door, and when once so adjusted as long as the device isleftundisturbed the picture may be removed for dusting and cleaning and bereplaced without any difficultyor care being exercised to keep the samein its original adjustment relative to the floor.

By my improvement the weight of the picture is more uniformlydistributed upon the wallsurface, as two or more points of support takethe place of the usual single nail or hook where a cord is used for itssuspension. The pitch or angle of the frame with the wall-surface isreadily adjusted in the usual way by shifting the wire eyes up from ordown toward the lower edge of the frame.

The accompanying drawings show the nature of my improy ement, likeletters of reference indicating like parts, in which the plane of thepaper represents the blank wall against which the pictures are to behung.

Figure lrepresents, perspectively,the hanging device secured in placeready for the support of the picture-frame represented in dotted lines,with its wire eyes thrown over the adjustable hooks of the device; Fig.2, a sectional side elevation of the device; Fig. 3, a plan and sideelevation of the wall-eyes; Fig. at, a plan and side elevation of theadjustable suspension-hooks,- Fig. 5, aplan of the corrugated nut forthe suspension-hooks; Fig. 6, a plan of the ordinary wire screw-eye usedfor the suspension of picture-frames by a cord.

Eyes A, provided with a tang, A, either threaded or plain, and having anornamental shoulder, A", are adapted to be screwed or driven into thewall, the shoulder A giving by the increased bearing against the wallgained thereby additional resistance to the withdrawal of the eye fromthe weight of picture hung thereon.

Hooks B, provided with a threaded shank, B, are adapted to pass freelythrough the walleyes A, and are provided with anut,B",havinga corrugatedperiphery,fitted to turn freely upon the same. I prefer to make thethread upon the shank B of a coarse pitch, so as to raise or lower thehook rapidly by turning the nut with the fingers.

The usual wire screw-eyes (represented by 0) when placed in the sides ofthei'rames for the reception of the usual si'ispension-cord, and at theright points to give the desired angle of the picture to the wall, arenot disturbed when it is desired to use my improvement.

D represents the picture-frame.

To apply my improvement, the location 01' the picture having beendetermined, the dis tance horizontally of the eyes 0 in the frame isfirst taken; then the height of the base of the frame above the floorplus the distance of the eyes 0 is next taken, then measuring at thelatter height from the floor and horizontally both sides of the centerof the picture to a distance equal to onehalf of the space from centerto center of the eyes 0. The eyes A are screwed or driven into the wallat the points thus obtained, the hooks B have their shanks B pushed upthrough the eyes A, (which are turned until they lie in a horizontalposition,) and the nuts B are run down upon the thread until the hooksare nearly on a line with each other. The picture is then lifted and theeyes 0 placed upon the hooks B. Should the base of the frame not hangparallel with the floor, the same is readily made to accord therewith bylowering one hook, or by raising one and lowering the other, by amanipulation of the nuts B As an additional security in retaining thehooks B in place, a jam-nut, B may be applied below the eye A, and afteradj ustment of level by nuts 13 the nuts B will be run up against theeye A, thus securing the hook B in position. 1

Having shown my improvement and described its construction, application,and ad vantages, I desire to claim as follows:

1. As a new device for the hanging of picture-frames, the eyes A,adaptedto be fastened to the wall, in combination with suspension: hooksB, having adjustable nuts B, and with the picture-frame by the usualeyes, 0, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose setforth.

2. As an improvementin adjustable pictureframe hangers, the wall-eyes A,having shanks A and shoulders A, adapted to be screwed or Witnesses:

PHILIPS. REID, H. D. TOLMAN.

